Ecstasy, catastrophe : Heidegger from Being and time to the Black notebooks / David Farrell Krell.

Ecstasy, catastrophe : Heidegger from Being and time to the Black notebooks / David Farrell Krell.

9781438458250 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1438458258 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781438458274 (electronic book)

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]

English

xvii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

193 H465k 2015

(OCoLC)908192267
(OCoLC)908192267

In Ecstasy, Catastrophe, David Farrell Krell provides insight into two areas of Heidegger's thought: his analysis of ecstatic temporality in Being and Time (1927) and his "political" remarks in the recently published Black Notebooks (1931-1941). The first part of Krell's book focuses on Heidegger's interpretation of time, which Krell takes to be one of Heidegger's greatest philosophical achievements. In addition to providing detailed commentary on ecstatic temporality, Krell considers Derrida's analysis of ekstasis in his first seminar on Heidegger, taught in Paris in 1964-1965. Krell also relates ecstatic temporality to the work of other philosophers, including Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Schelling, Hölderlin, and Merleau-Ponty; he then analyzes Dasein as infant and child, relating ecstatic temporality to the "mirror stage" theory as Jacques Lacan. The second part of the book turns to Heidegger's Black Notebooks, which have received a great deal of critical attention in the press and in philosophical circles. Notorious for their pejorative references to Jews and Jewish culture, the Notebooks exhibit a level of polemic throughout that Krell takes to be catastrophic in and for Heidegger's thought. Heidegger's legacy therefore seems to be split between the best and worst of thinking - somewhere between ecstasy and catastrophe. -- from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

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